James Brown — Doing It to Death

[Intro: James Brown] Hit it How you feeling, brother (Feeling good) You feel good? Play so much 'bone, brother! How you feel, man? (I feel all right) I won't call your name I don't want no people to know you're in here How you feeling, brother? Hey, Jab! Sure getting down Looka here, ha! [Chorus: James Brown & The J.B.'s] We're gonna have a funky good time We're gonna have a funky good time We're gonna have a funky good time We're gonna have a funky good time [Bridge: James Brown, Fred Wesley, The J.B.'s] Let's take 'em up, Fred We gotta take you higher Uh, ho, alright, gonna do it again You wanna do it again We gotta take you higher Ha, uh Brother? (Yeah?) Now I want everybody To let Fred blow about two choruses Then I'm gonna wave you in And let's go into what we did just now Alright? (Alright! Alright!) I wanna get that fella with the little horn over there... Fred, can you take us higher? (Yeah) Take us higher (Alright) Fred, Fred, Fred [Fred Wesley trombone solo] [Bridge: James Brown] Fred! Give a big round of applause for Fred, yeah Lord You know what? When I hear a groove like this groove Oh, it say I got to take you higher Yeah, baby, yeah, yeah Like way up yonder, man And things Looka here Someone got a groove like this You know, you know, know I need the grit, got the grit Gonna eat, got the grit Get the job, got the job Need the grit, got the grit Now, Fred, you know I believe, hey, Fred Thomas, brother I'm getting ready to wave y'all in Y'know what? I feel so down, I need to get down In order for me to get down, I gotta get in D (Go and get down, yeah) In order for me to get down, I gotta get in D Need to get in D Dog the D, down D Funky D, stankin' D Down D! [Band changes key from F to D] Get on down Morgan Lamp, you like D! That make him think about Macon, The Big M Look here, look at that This you over there? (Who is that cat?) You better sing one verse for us What we gotta do [Chorus: James Brown & The J.B.'s] We gotta have a funky good time, oh yeah We gotta have a funky good time, oh yeah We gotta have a funky good time [Outro: James Brown, Fred Wesley] I didn't know you were singing, Fred (I'm moanin') Don't moan so much, brother Don't moan so much! We gotta have a funky good time Take 'em up then We gotta take you higher Wait a minute Now who you say that was over there? (I dunno, mangy looking cat I know that I seen him somewhere Is that Maceo?) He's doing everything over there (Maceo?) Is it who (Maceo, you know, like Maceo, won't you blow?) Oh, yeah, Maceo...


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